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City Council Workshop
Workshop Special Meeting
Minutes
September 17, 2019
Date: September 17, 2019
Time: 5:05 p.m.
Place: Crystal Mountain Hall at Kent
Commons
I. PRESENTATIONS
1. 2020-2024 Human Services Master Plan and 2020-2024 CDBG
Consolidated Plan Process Update
Human Services Manager, Merina Hanson briefly discussed the 2020-2024
CDBG Consolidated Plan and noted that this item will be presented in greater
detail in mid-October.
Hanson discussed at length the importance of community engagement and
outreach in regards to the Human Services Master Plan. High level issues and
common themes throughout the region were identified by analyzing the data
themselves. Those high level themes include: Equity, Resilience and
Community Well-Being and Opportunity.
A draft of the first Human Services mission statement and guiding principals
were developed as a result of the outreach in order to help drive the
departments planning and future work.
"Create a healthy, thriving, and inclusive community for all Kent residents by
ensuring access to opportunity and high quality services."
- Maintain a safety net of service for Kent's most vulnerable residents, while
remaining flexible enough to respond to emerging needs.
- Focus on data driven, upstream investments that target root causes and
reduce the demand for costlier interventions later.
- Honor and respect the rich diversity within the City of Kent and strive to
ensure our services are accessible and culturally relevant.
- Recognize, respect, and build on the strengths of individuals, families, and
our community.
- Strive to move people along the continuum to stability, promoting maximum
independence.
- Value and promote collaboration and coordination at every level, including
amongst City divisions, local governments, non-profit agencies, private
funders, and our residents.
Hanson noted that when values were discussed there was a shift in their
focus. Person-centered over service-centered, strength based over deficit-
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based, innovation over tradition, integrated over fragmented, prevention
over crisis and sustainability over deficit.
Hanson stated that the feedback on priorities surprised them. Some of that
feedback that they found surprising was a lack of focus on youth age 16-24,
and on the other end of the spectrum was a clear need to add a priority
related to aging.
Draft Priorities and Goals:
A Good Start - focused on children and youth and being ready and successful
in school
Aging Well - helping older adults thrive in the community as they age
Individual and Community Well-Being - 4 goals under this one priority; 1.
Community members feel safe, welcomed and included in social, civic and
economic life; 2. Individuals and families have the opportunity to consistently
meet their basic needs; 3. Residents have opportunities to improve their
economic condition, build assets, and improve their long-term security; 4.
Residents can access resources to achieve quality physical, and mental well-
being.
Homelessness - provide access to homelessness prevention and housing
assistance services and create an engaged and informed community
regarding homelessness solutions.
Mayor Ralph commended the engagement of the Human Services team as
well as acknowledged the huge ask for them to serve the region as well as
our backyards.
Hanson discussed Human Services funding in the City versus other
municipalities in the region and how it is a struggle with the growing
population. She spoke about investing more in the community in regards to
prevention and intervention services, as well as a method for leveraging our
position as a stronger regional partner to help drive policy.
Councilmember Higgins inquired about public input during Human Services
Commission meetings. Higgins would like to see if there is a way to reach
back out to those that were a part of the outreach and provide updates.
Councilmember Thomas suggested adding the word "safe" to the Human
Services Mission Statement.
2. Levee Update
Mike Mactutis provided a detailed presentation regarding the Green River and
more specifically the levee repairs.
Mactutis spoke about 1920's flooding and how there has been some local
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flooding in recent years, but nothing major since 1961 because of the
continued protections being made.
Mactutis noted the importance of protecting the Green River Valley from both
an economic and environmental standpoint. It is a center for development in
that 1/8 of the state's gross domestic product is represented here. The Green
River Valley is the second largest warehouse district on the west coast, and
the fourth largest in the country.
Mactutis then discussed the importance of preserving the salmon
populations. All species of salmon are present here, including Endangered
Species Act listed Chinook salmon, steelhead and bull trout.
The various levee projects along the Green River were discussed, including
where they are at in the repair process.
- Briscoe Desimone Levee Flood Wall: Completed in 2016
- Upper Russell Levee: Completed in 2017
- Boeing Levee Flood Wall: Completed in 2013
- Riverbend Golf Course Levee: Completed in 2008
- Hawley Road Levee: Completed in 2017
- Foster Park Setback Levee: Completed in 2010; need to improve 100-year
levee to 500-year flood protection
- Horseshoe Bend Setback Levee and Flood Wall: Completed in 2017; need to
improve 100-year levee to 500-year flood protection
- Lower Russell Levee: Construction started in 2019 and will likely be the
biggest project of them all
- Signature Pointe Levee: ILA, design and real estate stages and will be the
longest distance levee project
- Milwaukee 2 Levee: ILA, real estate and Union Pacific Railroad coordination
stages
- Frager Road and Kent Airport Levee: Improve left bank levees to 500-year
flood protection
- SR 516 to S. 231st Way and Hawley Rad Levee: Improve to 500-year flood
protection
Council President Boyce inquired about the 500-year standard and how it is
calculated. Mactutis discussed the precipitation predictions and statistical
analysis to calculate the 500-year events. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
provides updates annually before the winter hits. A scan of the ocean is done
to see how much precipitation is coming. These are called atmospheric rivers,
but more commonly known as "pineapple express".
Mactutis discussed how environmental permitting is always a challenge by
the water, and more so right along the river. These permits need approval by
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Muckleshoot Tribe, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, US Army
Corps of Engineers as well as the Washington State Department of Ecology.
Habitat Restoration projects are underway:
- Teufel Nursery
- Downey Farmstead Side Channel
- Riverview Park Side Channel
- Leber Homestead Backchannel
Councilmemeber Higgins pointed out how far the City has come just over the
past 10 years and commended the team on playing a vital role in advocating
for businesses, residences and commerce as well as the huge amount of
economic activity done in the valley.
Troutner recognized the expertise that the team has and how well we are
represented in the region as a whole.
Councilmember Fincher expressed her appreciation for the work that is done
by this team and for the incredible updated photos.
Councilmember Boyce adjourned the meeting.
Meeting ended at 6:32 p.m.
Kathryn McKee
Deputy City Clerk
Human Services
Strategic Plan
Preliminary DRAFT
Vision:
All residents experience Kent as a thriving, sustainable, and inclusive
community.
CDBG Consolidated Plan
•The Consolidated Plan provides the blueprint for the
City’s federal investments in our community over the
next five years.
•The planning process serves as the framework for a
community‐wide dialogue to identify housing and
community development priorities that align and focus
funding from the CDBG program.
•Designed to help local jurisdictions assess their
affordable housing and community
development needs, and to make data‐driven,
place‐based investment decisions.
•Elements of the Consolidated Plan will include: an
Assessment of Need, Housing Market
Analysis outlining levels of relative need in the areas
of affordable housing, homelessness, special needs,
and community development, and a Strategic Plan
based on high priority needs.
•The Consolidated Plan must meet all requirements of
the Federal regulations and must follow the HUD
guidance for the eCon Planning Suite.
Human Services Strategic Plan
•The Human Services Strategic Plan (HSSP) provides the
blueprint for the City’s General Fund
investments in our community over the next four
years.
•The HSSP describes the City’s efforts in planning,
funding, coordinating and improving human services
delivery in order to achieve a more socially sustainable
community.
•The plan is designed to be a flexible, living document
that allows the City to respond to shifting community
needs over time.
•Elements of the plan will include: Vision, Guiding
Principles, Values, Assessment of Need,
Priorities, and Key Trends, Gaps and Issues.
•The HSSP includes a focus on upstream investments,
data driven decision making, system and service
integration, strengthening community partnerships,
and maintaining a strong social safety net of services.
2020‐2024 CDBG Consolidated Plan and
Human Services Strategic Plan
Data Analysis and
Project Planning
Review Existing Plans,
Analyze Data, Draft
Assessments,
Consultant
Contract
Executed
Human Services
Commission (5/20)
Goals and Priorities
PHS Committee
(5/16)
Update
Human
Services
Commission
(10/17)
Consolidated Plan
Public Hearing,
Approve Plan,
HSSP Priorities
Draft
Report
Prioritization
& Strategies
Approval
Process
Data Collection
& Analysis
Submit
Report
Community Outreach
(April – June)
Focus Groups, Surveys, Key
Informants, Existing
Meetings
Human Services
Commission (6/20)
Strategy Development,
Refinement of Goals and
Strategies, Prioritization
Community
Outreach
Prioritization
KCDIG (7/9)
Goals and Priorities
Council Workshop
(7/16)
Brief Update
Draft Reports
First Draft of
Consolidated Plan
(internal document).
City incorporates the
draft Consolidated
Plan and Citizen
Participation Plan.
8/26
Public Hearing
Pre‐publication
Discussion/
Hearing
Committee of
the Whole
(10/22)
Approve
Consolidated Plan
Submit (11/15)
Submit Consolidated
Plan and Annual
Action Plan to HUD
2020‐2024 CDBG Consolidated Plan and Human Services Strategic Plan Timeline
Human Services
Commission (4/18)
Review Timeline,
Outreach and Engagement
Planning Session.
Update PHS Committee on
timeline.
Edited Draft
Due (9/30)
City will publish
draft of
Consolidated
Plan 10/2
Council
Workshop
(9/17)
Update,
Themes,
Draft
Priorities
City Council
(11/5)
Approve
Consolidated Plan
Dec Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
Strategic Plan
(02/04/20)
Final Human Services
Strategic Plan
presentation at
Council Workshop
Data Collection
& Analysis
Prioritization
& Strategies
Draft
Report
Approval
Process
September 2018 –
June 2019
•Research
•Demographics
•Data Trends
•Best Practices
•Peer Cities
•Existing Plans
•Community
Outreach
•Consultant Contract
July 2019 –
October 2019
•Refinement of
Goals and
Priorities
•Development of
Strategies
•Incorporation of
CP and Citizen
Participation Plan
•Draft Plans
Released
•Public Hearings
•Committee of the
Whole
•Council Workshop
November 2019 –
December 2019
•Human Services
Commission
•City Council
•Consolidated Plan
Submitted to HUD
March 2019 –
July 2019
•Quantitative Data
•Focus Groups
•Interviews
•Surveys
•Development of
Goals and
Priorities
•Outreach and
Review at
Existing Meetings
2020‐2024 CDBG Consolidated Plan and Human Services Strategic Plan Timeline
Parks, Recreation and Community Services –Staff Contacts:
Merina Hanson, Human Services Manager
Dinah Wilson, Senior Human Services Coordinator (CDBG)/Lori Guilfoyle, Senior Human Services Coordinator
January 2020 ‐
February 2020
•Human Services
Strategic Plan
Approved by
Commission and
Presented at
Council Workshop
Make connections with people before you need them.
Community Engagement and Outreach
Where are the people you
are trying to reach?
That is where you need to
be.
Outreach was targeted primarily to low‐income residents (18,046), the non‐profit
agencies and community groups who serve them, and local policy makers.
Community Engagement and Outreach
Over 700 individuals reached.
Top High‐Level Issues
•Homelessness
•Transportation
•Housing Insecurity
•Navigation services
•Communication
•Services for Youth
•Services for Seniors
•Legal Aid
•Displacement
•Culturally Competent
Services
•Mental Health Services
•Affordable Child Care
•Welcoming Spaces
•Health Care
•Livable Wages
•Fear of Accessing Services
•Workforce Development
High Level Themes
•Equity
(promote fair and just access to community services, build partnerships that
engage and empower community groups and stakeholders in advancing access,
and demonstrate clear commitment to equity)
•Resilience and Community Well ‐Being
(well‐being includes people's physical, mental, and social health, and the
opportunities they have to create meaningful futures. It considers basic needs like
food, housing, education, employment, and income. It also includes social and
emotional needs like sense of purpose, safely, belonging and social connection,
and life satisfaction)
•Opportunity
(consider adding a resource for emerging or innovative programming, fund
creative ways to bridge gaps in access and services so that all Kent residents have
the opportunity to achieve self‐sufficiency)
DRAFT Human Services Mission
Create a healthy, thriving, and inclusive
community for all Kent residents by
ensuring access to opportunity and high
quality services.
DRAFT Guiding Principles
•Maintain a safety net of services for Kent’s most vulnerable residents, while
remaining flexible enough to respond to emerging needs.
•Focus on data driven, upstream investments that target root causes and
reduce the demand for costlier interventions later.
•Honor and respect the rich diversity within the City of Kent and strive to ensure
our services are accessible and culturally relevant.
•Recognize, respect, and build on the strengths of individuals, families, and our
community.
•Strive to move people along the continuum to stability, promoting maximum
independence.
•Value and promote collaboration and coordination at every level, including
amongst City divisions, local governments, non‐profit agencies, private funders,
and our residents.
•Person‐centered over service‐centered. Strive to build services, policies, and processes
grounded in what individuals and families need, as opposed to what we perceive the needs
and solutions to be.
•Strength‐based over deficit‐based. Build on what works with a lens on promoting the
strengths and resilience of individuals, families, and communities rather than solely focusing
on what is going wrong what the challenges are.
•Innovation over tradition. Prioritize being flexible and adaptable in order to be able to meet
the needs of fast ‐pace of change in our community.
•Integrated over fragmented. Prioritize services that are integrated and coordinated and
facilitate access and flow through, resulting in improved client and system‐level outcomes.
•Prevention over crisis. Where possible, continue to prioritize intervention and prevention
measures, rather than waiting for issues to become costlier crises before we intervene.
•Sustainability over deficit. Maximize value for taxpayers and develop financially‐sustainable
models that leverage additional resources wherever possible.
DRAFT Values
Feedback on Priorities
Current Funding Priorities
•Meeting Community Basics
Ensuring that people facing hardship have access to resources to help meet immediate or basic needs.
•Increasing Self Reliance
Helping individuals break out of the cycle of poverty by improving access to services and removing barriers
to employment.
•Strengthening Children and Families
Providing children, youth and families with community resources needed to support their positive
development.
•Building Safer Communities
Providing resources and services that reduce violence, crime and neglect in our community.
•Improving Health and Well ‐Being
Providing access to services to allow individuals to improve their mental and physical health, overall
well‐being, and ability to live independently.
•Improving and Integrating Systems
Leading efforts to ensure that human services systems meet demands and expectations by increasing
capacity, utilizing technology, coordinating efforts and sharing resources.
Feedback on Priorities
Community Feedback:
•Expand the strengthening children and families priority to add focus on
young adults and reconnecting youth age 16 to 24.
•Add a priority related to aging (eviction prevention, isolation, mental
health, and employment to support Aging in Place).
•Expand and reframe the community safety priority to include community
building to prevent other problems (community leadership, civic
engagement, etc.).
•Frame the priorities in a positive light with an increased focus on overall
community well‐being.
•Add social gatherings that decrease isolation, both for our immigrant and
refugee residents and others who need opportunities to build connections
in the community.
DRAFT PRIORITIES AND GOALS
A Good Start
Goal 1 – Children are healthy and ready to start school.
•Expand affordable, culturally appropriate early learning, child care and
preschool programs and activities.
•Support early intervention services that can impact a child’s developmental
path and improve outcomes for children, families, and communities.
Goal 2 ‐Youth are healthy, successful in school, and have positive
attachment to community.
•Build on and expand existing partnerships, programs and services for young people and
coordinate public and private programs to better serve our young people.
•Children, youth and families access and actively participate in high quality, culturally
responsive, and engaging programs that promote positive child, youth and family
development.
•Promote safe and supportive environments that foster healthy youth and families.
•Youth access and continue to utilize effective resources to support their positive
development and ability to fully participate in community life.
•Support strength‐based services that meet families where they are and address the
needs of the whole family.
Aging Well
Goal 1 ‐Older adults thrive in the community as they age.
Strengthen community options that allow older adults to age well and
safely in the community – including home repair,
home care, transportation options, and support services.
Provide access to educational and social events, classes, activities.
Ensure counseling, case management, and referral services are available in
the community.
Expand caregiver support programs and programs that prevent elder
abuse, isolation, and exploitation.
Individual and Community Well ‐Being
Goal 1‐Community members feel safe, welcomed and
included in social, civic and economic life.
Expand access to culturally appropriate services and programs.
Support access to and availability of resources, services and programs that
advance equity ‐
Foster partnerships with community organizations
Encourage and facilitate positive community well‐being ‐
Expand civic engagement opportunities
Expand education and awareness about inclusion and equity
Strengthen community connections that create protective environments
and build resilience.
Individual and Community Well ‐Being
Goal 2 – Individuals and families have the opportunity to
consistently meet their basic needs.
•Provide access to wraparound support services and case management to
help people remain stably housed.
•Support services that promote pathways to home ownership.
•Prevent food insecurity, and increase access to healthy, fresh food.
•Increase access to affordable, quality, legal and advocacy assistance for
low‐income residents.
Individual and Community Well‐Being
Goal 3 – Residents have opportunities to improve their
economic condition, build assets, and improve their long‐term
security.
•Create pathways to improve employment and income.
•Provide opportunities for internships and apprenticeships in the
community.
•Provide opportunity for entrepreneurship and small business
development.
•Increase access to financial literacy and provide programs to build assets.
•Develop strong regional partnerships to close the gaps in capacity,
encourage collaboration across jurisdictional boundaries, and help
overcome residents’ barriers to opportunity.
Individual and Community Well‐Being
Goal 4 – Residents can access resources to achieve quality
physical, and mental well‐being.
•Ensure access to services that promote physical and oral health.
•Expand access to a continuum of high quality behavioral health services
that includes prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery support
services.
•Support services that promote safe and healthy relationship skills and
disrupt pathways toward intimate partner violence.
•Increase awareness of the harms of domestic violence and of services
available to survivors.
Homelessness
Goal 1 ‐Individuals have access to homelessness prevention and
housing assistance services that are tailored to their unique needs
and strengths to help them achieve and maintain stable housing.
•Ensure residents at high risk of homelessness have flexible prevention services
suited to their needs.
•Ensure consistent access to specialized outreach workers and case
management, and promote more comprehensive wraparound services.
•Develop persistent, coordinated, and creative outreach efforts to engage
chronically homeless individuals to link them to services.
•Ensure all individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness are connected to
the Coordinated Entry System.
•Ensure access to a continuum of housing options including rapid rehousing,
shelter and permanent supportive housing.
Goal 2 –Create an engaged and informed community regarding
homelessness and homelessness solutions.
Acknowledge the strength of our community to make change by
leveraging their passion, energy, assets, and skills to help non‐profits
achieve their mission.
Engage and inform residents on issues regarding homelessness and Kent’s
response, as well as our combined efforts at the regional level.
Increase coordination with the faith community and community groups
focused on providing grassroots homelessness services.
Homelessness
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2016 Data
Nearly all municipalities invest in human services. Changing economic conditions, national
and state policy and funding changes have placed increased demands on local communities
to address social service issues.
DRAFT Funding Framework
Current Funding Investment
Reflects investments that continue to support the existing mix of programs
and services. Allows for adding limited number of programs every two years.
Maintains the current split between crisis response and prevention and
intervention.
Action Investment
Allows increased investments in prevention and intervention services, as well
as a method for leveraging our position as a stronger regional partner.
Strengthen the City’s ability to drive policy.
Vision Investment
Reflects an investment in goals and priorities outlined in the Strategic Plan.
Allows for the creation of an Opportunity Fund set aside for emerging needs.
Next Steps
Human Services staff will:
•Continue to refine goals and priorities
•Continue to develop our internal policy and operation
framework
•Analyze future funding and staffing needs
•Develop performance measurements
•Ensure alignment with other City plans and guiding
documents
•Present CDBG Consolidated Plan to Council of the Whole
10/22 and City Council 11/5
•Present final Human Services Strategic Plan to City Council
2/4
City of Kent Council Workshop
September 17, 2019
Green River Update
•Background on the Green River
•Green River Levee Repairs:
Completed, Active & Future Projects
•FEMA Flood Maps
•Regional Projects: King County Flood
Control District Lower Green River
Corridor Plan and the WRIA Salmon
Habitat Plan
•Environmental Permitting
•Green River Recreation
•Environmental Habitat Projects
Green River Update –Presentation Outline
•Historical Flooding
•Howard Hanson Dam
•Highly Urbanized
•Federally Listed
Endangered Salmon
•FEMA Flood Hazard Mapping
•Levees in Need of
Improvement
•Recreation and Open Space
The Green River –A Complex Watershed
Horseshoe Bend –Looking South, Nov 1959 Horseshoe Bend –Looking West, Dec 1946
The Green River Valley –Historical Flooding
Howard Hanson Dam –Completed 1961
The Green River Valley –An Economic Center
The Green River –Endangered Salmon
The Green River –Recreation and Open Space
Green River Levee Projects
Steady Progress of Repairs Since 2008
Briscoe Desimone Levee Flood Wall Completed in 2016
Upper Russell Levee Completed in 2017
Repair Goals Include:
•Public Safety
•FEMA Accreditation
•Recreation and
Open Space
•Salmon Habitat
Restoration
Briscoe Desimone Levee
Construction of Flood Walls Completed in 2016
Reach 3 Flood Wall –Looking Northeast, August 2019
New Earthen Levee
and Flood Wall
Boeing Levee
Construction of Flood Wall Completed in 2013
Boeing Levee Flood Wall -Looking Southwest, August 2019
New Flood Wall
Upper Russell Levee
Construction of Setback Levee Completed in 2016
Boeing Levee Flood Wall, Looking SouthUpper Russell Levee -South Reach, Looking South
Riverbend Golf Course Levee
Army Corps of Engineers Repairs Completed in 2008
Army Corps of Engineers Levee Repair, August 2008
Hawley Road Levee
Construction SR 167 Levee Connection Completed in 2017
Hawley Road Levee -Looking North, August 2019
New Earthen Levee
Foster Park Levee
Construction of Setback Levee Completed in 2010
Foster Park Levee -Looking West, August 2019
New Earthen Levee
Horseshoe Bend Levee
Construction of Setback Levee and Flood Wall Completed in 2017
Horseshoe Bend Levee -Looking Northeast, August 2019
New Earthen Levee
New Flood Wall
Lower Russell Levee
Construction Started in 2019
Groundbreaking Celebration -August 22, 2019
Signature Pointe Levee
ILA, Design and Real Estate
Artist Rendering of Proposed Levee with Riparian Plantings
Signature Pointe Levee Looking South, Aug 2019
Future 500-YR Levee
Milwaukee 2 Levee
ILA, Design, Real Estate and Union Pacific Railroad Coordination
Future 500-YR Levee
Artist Rendering of Proposed Levee with Riparian Plantings
Milwaukee 2 Levee Looking West, Google Earth
Future 500-YR Levee
Frager Road Levee and Kent Airport Levee
Repair/Improve Left Bank Levees to 500-YR Flood Protection
Kent Airport Levee, Looking East, Feb 1996
Frager Rd Levee, Looking South, Nov 2006
Briscoe Desimone Levee and Boeing Levee
Improve 100-YR Levee to 500-YR Flood Protection
500-YR Protection
Repaired Levee
100-YR Levee
To Be Raised To
500-YR Protection
SR 516 to S 231st Way AND Hawley Road Levee
Improve 100-YR Levee to 500-YR Flood Protection
500-YR Protection
Repaired Levee
100-YR Levee
To Be Raised To
500-YR Protection
Foster Park Levee and Horseshoe Bend Levee
Improve 100-YR Levee to 500-YR Flood Protection
500-YR Protection
Repaired Levee
100-YR Levee
To Be Raised To
500-YR Protection
FEMA Flood Maps Update
Briscoe Desimone Levee Completed in 2016
NEW FEMA 2017 Preliminary Map
Upper Russell Levee Completed in 2017
FEMA Flood Map Schedule:
•May 2019,FEMA Revised Preliminary Flood Map
•Nov. 2019, FEMA Letter of Final Determination
•May 2020, FEMA Flood Maps Become Effective
FEMA Flood Maps Update
Schedule and MilestonesFEMA Flood Maps Update
FEMA Flood Maps –Kent Valley Creeks
Revise Flood Mapped Areas due to local drainage
Mill Creek High Water Event, Looking Northeast, Feb 1996
King County Flood Control District
Lower Green River Corridor Flood Hazard Management Plan
Project Study Area
Water Resource Inventory Area 9 (WRIA 9)
Salmon Habitat Plan Update
2005 WRIA 9 Salmon Habitat Plan
Water Resource Inventory Area 9 (WRIA
9)
Green River Levee Projects
Environmental Permitting
Green River Environmental Projects:
1.Teufel Nursery (Flood Control District)
2.Downey Farmstead Side Channels
3.Riverview Park Side Channel
4.Leber Homestead Backchannel
Green River Habitat Restoration Projects
Large Scale Projects to Restore Salmon Habitat
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Downey Farmstead Side Channels
Restores Salmon Habitat and Reduces Flood Risk
Downey Farmstead Restoration -Looking Southeast, Aug. 2019
Riverview Park Channel Restoration
Restores Salmon Habitat Reduces Flood Risk
Riverview Park Channel Restoration -Looking Northwest, Aug. 2019
Before Construction
Leber Homestead Restoration
Restores Salmon Habitat and Reduces Flood Risk
Leber Homestead Restoration -Looking North, August 2019
City of Kent Council Workshop
September 17, 2019
Green River Update